The Personality Shop is Tony Attwood's follow up to Singles Night at the Museum.  Here are some early thoughts...

"The notion of the Personality Shop - a location where you could go and change your personality in the same way that some people go and change their looks via a plastic surgeon - first arose sometime around 2000.   What brought it back to mind was a song I wrote in 2005 - "Where did you learn to dance like that?" which tells the story of group of friends going out on a boat, stopping off at the village disco, and then the attempt by the...

navigator to form a liaison with one of the guests.   This guest, the song reveals, was a famous artist from years ago, but suddenly disappeared from the scene, amidst stories of a nervous breakdown.  Yet when the navigator sees him, he is very much full of life."

"The song intrigued me - not least because I have never found a satisfactory end to the story, and I might well have left the matter had it not been for the fact that I then wrote another reflective song about the way dance affects people, "There's nowhere to dance on this planet".   The idea came to me that maybe the navigation girl's attempt to strike up a liaison with the artist affected him, and the next morning he picks up a guitar and knocks out this song.